Hidden inside matey sit etyma, matey, and meaty, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
etyma, matey, and meaty tie for the highest Scrabble score from matey at 10 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in matey: two come from rearranging its letters, and matey itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etyma, matey, and meaty, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in matey produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, and team. For points, the strongest plays are mate, meat, meta, tame, and team — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling matey turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, aye, eat, may, met, tea, and yet. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in matey and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
matey is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in matey carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for matey. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
matey is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matey unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are etyma, matey, and meaty, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matey earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in matey produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.